Music-Instruction & Study-Composition

Picking up a Guitar and Making Beautiful Music Is a Great FeelingWhether you're young or old, there's no better feeling than learning to play an instrument. Sadly, most people believe that they will never learn how to play Guitar.Local guitar teachers seem like a...

Are You Struggling To Get Reverb Working In Your Mixes?Do you find yourself WASTING TIME with painful trial and error trying to get the perfect reverb sound for your mixes? Or maybe you're just overwhelmed by all the different options within reverb?Every professional engineer...

This book has the objective to open a window on how to understand the concepts of jazz arrangement, its vocabulary, colours, and function in todays modern guitar playing. In my mind, it was idealized initially for those who play the guitar by sight reading,...

(Willis). Part 3 of a comprehensive step-by-step course specifically designed to suit the needs of all children beginning the piano. Includes: characters and illustrations * writing exercises * sight reading drills * review work * accompaniments * and more. This version includes online audio...

This book is the first choice for any artist seeking quick, fun, easy-to-digest insight into the depth of Logic, from early Emagic retro Logic secrets to the latest power tools and GUI enhancements added since Logic's acquisition by Apple, Inc. Whether you have just...

All artists have doubts and anxieties. What are yours? Managing procrastination, anxiety, and creative blocks? Knowing how to trust your work? Dealing with other people? Balancing the need to push through to the end of a work while keeping your health and sanity? Handling...

Professional Orchestration: A Practical Handbook - Workbook is the Workbook for all three Handbooks in the series: From Piano to Strings, From Piano to Woodwinds and From Piano to Orchestra. You orchestrate and optionally record the same examples in the Workbook for the homework...

(Berklee Guide). Unleash the creative potential of your guitar, and express your imagination through your music! This inspiring, practical and fun approach to composing and improvising will develop your sense of dynamics, articulation, rhythm, melodic direction and musical E.S.P. Think out of the box,...

How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko describes a...

While the role of a producer is constantly evolving in relation to music, time, and technological transitions and updates, there are proven similarities throughout all musical productions regarding processes and workflow management.In this practical and highly accessible guide, Josh Bess breaks music production down...

Radically transform your songwriting composition skills in only thirty days.The 30-Day Music Writing Challenge is a thirty-day bootcamp that will take your songwriting composition skills to the next level - in as little as fifteen minutes per day.You'll practice writing distinctive grooves. You'll craft...

Author: Willi ApelISBN-10: 1849028052ISBN-13: 9781849028059Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2010Pages: 518Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.15d

Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approachpresents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music theory through an emphasis on melody and counterpoint. This focus explains the "why" of musical construction more clearly than the traditional approach of beginning with chords. By starting with a single...

Creative Orchestration by American Composer George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) is highly regarded in academic circles for its direct and uncomplicated approach based on McKay's 40 years of teaching music theory at the University of Washington, Seattle while using experiential methods with small groups of...

(Criterion). Used by leading universities for courses in Practical Arranging and Composing in the professional field. Endorsed by leading music educators, composers, and arrangers.Author: Russell GarciaISBN-10: 1458423794ISBN-13: 9781458423795Publisher: CriterionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2008Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.50d

Recommended by winners of the Academy, Grammy, and Emmy Awards, Professional Orchestration is the first multi-volume series in orchestration from an American Publisher that teaches the devices and orchestral combinations which, before now, have been known by only a privileged few. It's also the...

In this new text, designed to follow SCALES, INTERVALS, KEYS, TRIADS, RHYTHMS, AND METER by the same authors, the procedures of programmed instruction are utilized to promote the student's mastery of part-writing fundamentals and understanding of the basic concepts of harmonic progression.Author: John CloughISBN-10:...

(Manuscript Paper). This collection of manuscript paper for ukulele features 80 perforated pages. Each page features 7 tab staves and 8 chord diagrams, and a music tablature guide is also included.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 1705140351ISBN-13: 9781705140352Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2021Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition provides an innovative approach to the instruction of the craft of music composition based on tailored exercises to help students develop their creativity. When composition is condensed to a series of logical steps, it can...

With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point. Joining dozens of emerging and established scholars alongside leading practitioners in the field, chapters in this Handbook both describe the state of algorithmic composition and...

Author: Stephen RoseISBN-10: 1108431283ISBN-13: 9781108431286Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2021Pages: 259Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.55d

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer Roger Reynolds, musician Karen Reynolds, and musically inspired composer, engineer, and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) to create a house design, The Reynolds Desert House. The process combined aesthetics and intuition...

While the role of a producer is constantly evolving in relation to music, time, and technological transitions and updates, there are proven similarities throughout all musical productions regarding processes and workflow management.In this practical and highly accessible guide, Josh Bess breaks music production down...

Jazz Composition and Arranging In the Digital Age is a comprehensive and practical instructional book and reference guide on the art and craft of jazz composition and arranging for small and large ensembles. In this book, veteran composers and arrangers Richard Sussman and Michael...

Fresh Music: Explorations with the Creative Workshop Ensemble for Musicians, Artists, and Teachers chronicles 40 years of the Creative Workshop Ensemble(CreW) at the Berklee College of Music and internationally. The book provides refreshing alternatives and immerses and engages the reader in real and practical...

With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for such films as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon...

(Carta Manuscript Paper). 26 stave score pad, 12x18, 40 sheets, includes Orchestral Range/Transposition Chart.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0793557887ISBN-13: 9780793557882Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1997Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 17.80h x 11.80w x 0.40d

This book is for anyone who writes, plays or listens to jazz. It explains the writing process and the construction of jazz pieces. I've attempted to answer many of the questions that arrangers and composers ask themselves when they are writing. Players who read...

The Trait de l'harmonie of Jen-Philippe Rameau is one of the most important books in the history of Western music. Written while Rameau was still a relatively obscure organist and music master at Clermont-Ferrand, the book received but one printing during Rameau's life, in...

Music manuscript book. 96 pages of blank staff paper. 12 staves per page. Includes music reference charts.Author: Em Music PublishingISBN-10: 1512227862ISBN-13: 9781512227864Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2015Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.21d

The Comprehensive Book of Modes and Scales for Piano and Keyboard Players was written specifically for classically trained pianists with little knowledge of scales. This book contains over 70 scales and modes including major, minor, jazz modes, pentatonic, bebop, octatonic, exotic, synthetic scales, etc....

"GarageBand 11 - How it Works" from the GEM series (Graphically Enhanced Manuals) explains Apple's popular music production application "GarageBand" with rich illustrations and diagrams that are not found in any other manual. This 161 pages letter size book presents this software application in...

As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result, composers are increasingly becoming armies of...

Conversational in style and full of practical advice, this user-friendly book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of writing effective arrangements that will make any band sound better. Over 150 musical examples illustrate the dozens of practical tips and techniques presented. Chapters include...

A practical but scholarly guide to Japanese instruments by one of the country's leading composers. The unique sounds of the biwa, shamisen, and other traditional instruments from Japan are heard more and more often in works for the concert hall and opera house. Composing...

If you are an aspiring musician, poet, or wordsmith who has ever wanted to write a song--or if you want to write better songs--this book will lead you step by step through the songwriting process and help you to discover tricks and techniques for...

The Creative Electronic Music Producer examines the creative processes of electronic music production, from idea discovery and perception to the power of improvising, editing, effects processing, and sound design. Featuring case studies from across the globe on musical systems and workflows used in the...

Composer-arranger David Berger shares the secrets of writing vocal music that's fresh, original and memorable, distilled from a lifetime of writing for singers like Jon Hendricks and C cile McLorin Salvant, Betty Carter and Natalie Cole. Includes links to his scores and recordings of...

Capture your songs and ideas on paper with the Guitar SheetsTM Songwriting Journal. Perfect for songwriters, guitar players, and teachers Every songwriter needs to be able to keep track of their best ideas so they can revisit them, develop them, and shape them into...

All music fans harbor in their memories vivid fragments of their favorite works. The starting guitar solo of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, the da-da-da-DUM gesture that opens Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the lush swelling chords of a beloved movie soundtrack: hearing the briefest snippet...

(Carta Manuscript Paper). Spiral bound, 9x12, 96 pages, 12 staves, includes Music Notation guide.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0793557658ISBN-13: 9780793557653Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.80w x 0.30d

(Manuscript Paper). 96 pages, 12 staves per page, heavy premium paper erases easily, 9 x 12, Music Notation Guide.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0793553938ISBN-13: 9780793553938Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1987Pages: 96Format: SpiralWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 12.39h x 8.85w x 0.26d

A collection of brand-new, in-depth, and revealing conversations about songwriting with some of the world's most-noted hitmakers THE ART OF NOISE offers an unprecedented collection of insightful, of-the-moment conversations with twenty-seven of the great songwriters. They discuss everything from their individual approaches to writing,...

Alexander Publishing's How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite is a breakthrough in orchestration instruction with its newly engraved score with piano part at page bottom, the original short stories that Ravel based the work on, and a complete analysis of each movement, combined together,...

Musical composition is a key discipline in music programs in conservatories, colleges, and universities. Many teachers consider it as important in the development of young musicians as listening and performance. It can be argued that through compositions musicians achieve the deepest insight into the...

What makes music sound happy? What makes it sound sad? Tense? Relaxed? Beautiful? Powerful? Scary? Nostalgic? We will seek to answer the fundamental question: What makes music sound the way it sounds? The more deeply we can answer this question, on both logical and...

Embrace Your Inner ArtistDo you struggle writing songs? Have you ever tried learning music theory but found it hard or thought that it wasn't necessary? If you are finding that you are writing songs, and whilst they sound good, there is something missing then...

Stuck? Blocked? Short of inspiration?Don't be - get writing instead.The Ultimate Book of Song Starters is the game-changing compilation of 501 powerful, creative and varied ideas for writing new songs in any genre or style.The starters include song prompt-style idea starters to get you...

Do you wish to become a composer of music? Are you a trained classical musician, but having difficulties to compose your own stuff? Or are you interested in making music, and do not really know where to start? If this is your story, A...

Professional Orchestration 2B, Orchestrating the Melody Within the Woodwinds and Brass, completes the second volume in the Professional Orchestration Series, and continues Alexander Publishing's historic breakthrough in orchestration instruction. Volume 2B details, for the first time, dozens of woodwind and brass writing techniques previously...